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The texts have titles such as ‘A Guide To Getting’, ‘Confidence, Trust and Loving’
and ‘Grow Rich’. Different quantities of delay are programmed into each pair of
magnets. This work plays with the notion of a signal-to-noise ratio 112 and the
implication that our communication nearly always causes a disruption for
someone else.
‘Chicken Soup From Mars’ was the fifth most-referenced piece by the press from
the exhibition in a five-way tie with at least two references (individual works
were shown in the same spaces as ‘Warp’ and ‘Penrose Strapping 1’).
Open Call 8. ‘Motion in Form’ by Tavs Jørgensen 113 consists of a range of
objects created using Jørgensen’s hand and finger motions captured via a data
glove or micro scriber. Jørgensen is currently a Research Fellow in 3D Digital
Production at the Autonomatic Research Cluster, University College Falmouth.
Motion capture using the ShapeHand system 114 enabled Jørgensen to feed the
motion of his hand directly into a CAD program to be used as basic ‘frames’ for
constructing skins or solid forms (Figure 69, right).
Figure 68: ‘Motion in Form’ installation view (left) and detail (right), 2006. Tavs
Jørgensen
In the exhibition were shown five glass vessel forms based on the capture of a
series of hand-drawn lines in space. In each case these lines were extruded in
CAD to define surfaces that were unfolded and laser cut from thin stainless steel
to form physical representations of the 3D lines. These were set it in plaster and
a disk of glass heated in a kiln on top of each one resulting in a bowl form
112 An electrical engineering concept defined as the ratio of a signal’s strength to the amount of background noise
that corrupts it.
113 http://www.octavius.co.uk
114 http://www.measurand.com/products/ShapeHand.html
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